The Dickinson Theatre Organ Society closes it's 50 Season with Maestro Peter Richard Conte of Philadelphia, PA for his first concert on the "Mighty Kimball" organ and the 4th Largest Organ in the World. Maestro Conte is the "House Organist" at the Wanamaker's/Macy's Organ in Philadelphia and the lead organist at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

Serafin Ensemble presents Serafin Summer Music 2020 from June 5-20, 2020. The classical music festival features 7 scintillating performances by 19 highly acclaimed artists from around the country. For more details on concert repertoire and performing artists, please visit www.serafinensemble.org.

All concerts will be held at The Music School of Delaware (Wilmington Branch). Tickets are available for purchase at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Serafin Summer Music is presented in partnership with The Music School of Delaware and The University of Delaware Department of Music, and is sponsored by William J. Stegeman, Ph.D. and Jacobs Music Company.
Saturday, 6/13/19 at 5:30pm LOVERS, FRIENDS, MENTORS
Dvorak, “Romance” in F Minor, Op. 11 for Violin and Piano
Brahms, Two Songs, Op. 91 for Alto, Viola, and Piano
Clara Schumann, Three Romances, Op. 22 for Oboe and Piano
R. Schumann Quintet in Eb Major, Op. 44 for Piano and Strings

Serafin Ensemble presents Serafin Summer Music 2020 from June 5-20, 2020. The classical music festival features 7 scintillating performances by 19 highly acclaimed artists from around the country. For more details on concert repertoire and performing artists, please visit www.serafinensemble.org.

All concerts will be held at The Music School of Delaware (Wilmington Branch). Tickets are available for purchase at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Serafin Summer Music is presented in partnership with The Music School of Delaware and The University of Delaware Department of Music, and is sponsored by William J. Stegeman, Ph.D. and Jacobs Music Company.

Join Herbalist Sue on a local scavenger hunt for medicinal plants! Learn some basic plant identification skills, then set out to discover where medicine plants can be found, how they’ve been used through the centuries, and their role in supporting life and well-being in the modern world.

Sip and Social! Celebrate with Kind to Kids Foundation on Thursday, June 11th, 5 – 7 pm at the grand Hotel du Pont lobby. It’s a wine and food event for the nine year anniversary of serving 15,000 Delaware children in foster care and poverty. Legislators, business administrators, community leaders, supporters, and friends all come together at this excellent networking event. Registration is limited – sign up early! Buy tickets at kindtokids.org. For more info, call (302) 654-5440 or email kindtokids@kindtokids.org.

Create a container herb garden for your family to take home! Decorate a pot, plant herbs, and learn how to care for your mini-garden. Discover how the herbs can be used for cooking and as remedies for wellbeing.

The First State Mini Club is holding its 43rd Annual Show and Sale, offering beautiful miniature exhibits, quality vendors and artisans, door prizes, make-and-takes, and more.
This event was postponed from March 22.

The Delaware Contemporary is excited to announce the unveiling of The Platform Gallery, the launch pad for our public art initiative on the exterior of our building with three monumental, exuberant, and empowering figurative compositions by Theresa Chromati. A key goal for 2020 is to raise the profile of art in our community and make it accessible to the greatest number of people in the public space. The Delaware Contemporary is launching this public art initiative to encourage civic dialogue and community development by turning the exterior of our building into a public exhibition space. Through this public art initiative we will engage EVERYONE who passes on foot, by car, by train, or by bike.

The inaugural Platform Gallery exhibition, Stepping Out to Step In by Theresa Chromati, joins The Delaware Contemporary’s celebration of the suffrage centennial by showcasing the work of an emerging female creative leader on the faces of our building. Three exterior locations, spanning nearly the entire height of the building’s façade, have been selected by Chromati and Curator-in-Residence Kristen Hileman, as sites for the commissioned banners to be displayed. These colossal-scale works will greet those who work and live in Wilmington, and respond to and enliven the city streetscape and views from the close-by railroad and interstate. Chromati’s work for the Platform Gallery project will launch an ongoing series of commissioned banners, rotating twice a year and featuring today’s most relevant and bold artists.

In addition to her three original public banners, Stepping Out to Step In will feature Chromati’s paintings for a solo exhibition in The Delaware Contemporary’s Carole Bieber & Marc Ham Gallery, opening date pending COVID-19 developments. This exhibition is also organized by Kristen Hileman, who over the past decade headed the contemporary department at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Eight large-scale, figurative works will reveal the many ways that Chromati is rethinking the practice of figure painting; including through the use of multi-paneled formats, the application of glitter to surfaces, and ambient sound deployed to create an immersive and poignant viewing environment.

Although not yet 30, Chromati has garnered critical and institutional attention for paintings that burst with color and texture as they present sophisticated compositions that layer and interweave female figures. These bodies are at once imaginative, bordering on abstract, and celebratory as they convey a variety of emotional and spiritual states of being. The artist, who is of Guyanese-American descent, has described the work as evoking different feminine energies, as well as an outlet for self-representation. In the undulating and exquisitely balanced forms one experiences sensual, aesthetic, and psychological complexity and strength. These qualities have roots in the artist’s childhood in Baltimore, where she was surrounded by a tight-knit community of black women.

Chromati’s formal art education includes studies at the DCAD (Delaware College of Art and Design) and the Pratt Institute. Now based in New York City, Chromati has profound connections to several cities, including Wilmington, along the transit and urban corridor served by The Delaware Contemporary.